[Dune] Re: [Dune-CVS] dune-grid r2892 - trunk/grid/common

[Oliver Sander]

Hi Thimo!
Thank you for the advice!  As you have certainly noticed I have
already reverted the commits in question, since it was pointed
out to me that they violated the current feature-freeze.

--
Oliver

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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Thimo Neubauer wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:39:01PM +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
>> What is the problem?  All built-in C++ types act that way.
>
> ... which is the reason why constructors/destructors were
> created... so that you don't have to search for hours until you find
> the one uninitialized variable.
>
> And even better: a good compiler will warn if you forget to initialize
> a builtin type but not for the "undefined" EntityPointer.
>
> Please design the class interfaces with the
>
>  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_Of_Least_Surprise
>
> i.e. either introduce a "NULL"-state (if you really want empty
> EntityPointers) or remove the empty constructor.
>
> Cheers
>  Thimo
>
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